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A new story from Andrew O'Hagan about lost love, Robert Burns and the Clydebank Blitz.

In 1941 a military hospital in Ayrshire braces for an influx of patients after an air raid.
Andrew O'Hagan's story about love, memory and Robert Burns is read by Barbara Rafferty.

In 1941, a military hospital in Ayrshire braces to receive an influx of patients. 
Andrew O'Hagan's story of lost love and enduring hope takes in the Clydebank Blitz, inconstant lovers and the poems of Robert Burns.

Read by Barbara Rafferty
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

Andrew O'Hagan is a Booker-nominated writer of novels and non-fiction and editor-at-large for the LRB. An adaptation of O’Hagan’s most recent novel, 'Mayflies', was broadcast on BBC1 over Christmas and is available on iPlayer.

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